The_Contractor - 4:31 pm on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

OK, I will answer your questions.

Elaborate please. I have three ODP clones that are PR5 and doing well in serps. How come they haven't been filtered?

The probable answer to your question has been answered by walkman in msg#374 and also in [webmasterworld.com...] msg #:16 " It's something that we're going to look more at over time, too."

Now after reading msg #:4 in the same thread, I would imagine this will be an ongoing thing rolled out over time.

Kindly read other people posts that state that their directories, with unique submissions, were nuked although has nothing to do with ODP.

Agree completely. From the those that stickied me it looks like scrapers, full/partial ODP, copied/mirrored newsgroups, having multiple sites using the same content, or using content taken from elsewhere as being the majority of their pages/content. I have yet to see one site that has been hit by this that does not have one or more of the above conditions. Which all boils down to the majority of each of these sites were made up of duplicate content.

Here we go starting a silly argument again. Wearing the clothes of a judge and assuming that my directory is nothing but an ODP clone although it has a one year old seed of ODP and yahoo directory, with thousands of unique submissions. I dont know even whether you know my directory url or not!

I know one of yours that's banned and it completely fits the description I gave. I'll give you credit on the others…you make them harder to find when you use your nameservers as the domain names. How did your sale go of that Russian domain? Amazing what you can find out if you look.

I repeat, GG has said clearly "with no value added", of course you are saying that we, all the banned directories owners…

I never said such a thing. I have clearly stated that every one I saw (including yours) contained one or more elements that I have described over and over and over again.

Do you really think that .1% or less of original content on top of an ODP clone along with 80% of page space taken up by AdSense ads defines the term "value added"?